ANTIQUE 1877 LEGAL DOCUMENT MONROE COUNTY GEORGIA JOHN T CROWDER ALBERTUS WATTS
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Please email with any questions. Antique handwritten Monroe County Superior Court legal document dated 1877, case between John Terrell Crowder and Albertus Watts and Sarah Ann Jerucia Thomas Jackson. Mrs Jackson was the widow of a man named Albertus H Watts who died in 1860. John Crowder was named trustee of Watts widow and children. Mr Watts must have been a relative or very close friend of Crowder since according to records online, he is buried in the Crowder Family cemetery in Monroe County. This document written 17 years after his death seems to have come from Watts son selling some property and using the proceeds that he had no right to in order to purchase the Johnston House Hotel on the public square in Forsyth, Georgia. The document has 20 handwritten pages. I didn't read the whole thing- between the stilted legalese and the handwriting it is a slow-go. I know that John T Crowder was a wealthy man in Monroe County and had organized a group of men into what was known as the "Monroe Crowders" during the Civil War.
